Mike Giarlo is Digital Library Architect at the Pennsylvania State
University. His primary roles are designing a technical
architecture for durable access to the institution’s digital
assets, providing vision and strategy for the development of the
architecture, building a development team, and fostering community
around digital curation locally and abroad.

He has been working in library technology since 1999, holding
systems administration and software development positions
primarily in support of digital libraries and repositories at the
Library of Congress, Princeton University, the University of
Washington, and Rutgers University. He earned both a bachelor's
degree in linguistics and an MLIS at
Rutgers. His top interests are APIs,
IPAs, and
AIPs.